. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . Nest of Black-billed Cuckoo. Showing the newly hatched youngster with its blue cap (j). 79).. Young Black-billed Cuckoos in nest. Bristling with pin-feathers (p. 80) STRANGE BED-FELLOWS Yellow-billed, which are hard to tell apart, unless onegets very near them, which is not easy to do. They areshy, retiring birds, and keep mostly in the thick students seldom have a better chance to examinea cuckoo in life and see how useful a tribe these birdsare than did a certain company of young ladies. I wasgiving a bird lecture at
. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . Nest of Black-billed Cuckoo. Showing the newly hatched youngster with its blue cap (j). 79).. Young Black-billed Cuckoos in nest. Bristling with pin-feathers (p. 80) STRANGE BED-FELLOWS Yellow-billed, which are hard to tell apart, unless onegets very near them, which is not easy to do. They areshy, retiring birds, and keep mostly in the thick students seldom have a better chance to examinea cuckoo in life and see how useful a tribe these birdsare than did a certain company of young ladies. I wasgiving a bird lecture at Bradford Academy, Mass., andthe next morning took an early bird walk with a partyof the girls and a teacher. Beside the path was a wildcherry tree which was stripped bare of foliage andcontained the nest of the despoilers, some sort of cankerworm or caterpillar. Perched beside this was a Black-billed Cuckoo, breakfasting. We were all withintwenty feet of it, and watched it for some minutes eatworm after worm, which it took from the nest. If wecould only raise cuckoos enough, we might conquer thegypsy moth, that most expensive pest. Were it not for t
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